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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” — Upton SInclair (1934).

He “is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.” — Samuel Johnson (1709-1784).

Johnson was speaking of Thomas Sheridan, but I think it one of the great barbs of history. It doesn’t really apply to Rove. Rove is a very smart man, I won’t dispute it, but smart is not the same thing as wise. Many of Rove’s sort have brains, what they lack is wisdom.

Moral sense? But there are many moralities. A person can have what my dad likes to call “moral clarity” and still do terrible things. But when I say wisdom, I also mean something quite different from intelligence per se. In fact, I suspect one can be quite wise without being quite bright.

TTM, it says that they are smart enough to know that Hillary isn’t even an official candidate and there are over two years to the next Presidential election. That means all polling right now on who will run and who might win is about as accurate as the IPCC’s and NOAA’s climate predictions for 2016…

About Tom Toles

With his singular style, Tom Toles tackles the complex issues of the day. This Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist skillfully targets political, economic and social concerns — in particular complicated environmental issues — with a clear-eyed precision that hits the mark every time.